Photograph - Army School Cricket XI 1910

[mrfrank]

This photo was taken by Hills & Saunders of Eton, therefore I’m assuming it was taken at the school in Maidenhead, but can’t be sure. I’ve looked up those featured and if they subsequently attended the RMC and commissioning dates/Regiments as follows:

Hereward Douglas St George Cardew - RMC, 2nd Dragoon Guards, Feb12

Geoffrey Nicholson MC  - RMC, Hampshire Regiment, Sep13

HA Russell - unsure, possibly Harold Alfred Russell, 3rd Dorsets, Mar15

George Cyprien Weston - from Special Reserve South Lancashire Regiment Oct15

MG Plowden

William Eric Newton Burlton MC - RMC, South Lancashire Regiment, Feb14

Thomond Herbert O’Bryan Horsford - RMC, West Yorkshire Regiment, Jan14

Edward Peter Collings- RMC, East Lancashire Regiment, Mar12. Royal Fusiliers Oct12

Dudley Ralph Turnbull DSO - RMC, Gordon Highlanders, Mar12

Eric Udny Raikes - RMC, Cheshire Regiment, Mar15

Alexander Godfrey Collings - 4th Shropshire Light Infantry, Nov14.
 

I can’t find anything on MG Plowden so if anyone can provide any information/identify him I’d be grateful.

Lt THO’B Horsford was KiA with 2nd WYR on 14th March 1915 aged 22

Lt Col DR Turnbull was KiA commanding 20th Manchesters on 1st October 1917 aged 25 

Whilst scouring the internet, I noticed that prior to his entry to RMC,  Lt Horsford had attended Storrington College in Sussex that was described as being a ‘military school’. 

 

 

 

Edited 19 August , 2023 by mrfrank

[DavidOwen]

There was a Meredith G A C Plowden born 1893 died 1910 in Maidenhead 

(Images courtesy FMP)

 

He was born in Bengal to a military family 

[DavidOwen]

He died as a result of appendicitis.  Maidenhead Advertiser 7 December 1910 (courtesy FMP).

Explains why there was no further sign of him. His father was a Major General.

[mrfrank]

Thank you David. That’s certainly him and explains why I couldn’t find him on the 1911 census.

[charlie962]

1911 Census, 17 year old student Harold Russell was born Sydney, Australia 

[charlie962]

This was @rolt968 suggestion on another thread.

Here, courtesy The Genealogist, is 1911 census for the Army School, Holyport.

Edited 20 August , 2023 by charlie962

[rolt968]

I have worked with this page before. Unfortunately (and perhaps surprisingly for a school entry in the 1911 Census) the forenames shown are not necessarily the first forename nor the official/ formal/ registered form of the forename. Harry Jacob was Arthur Henry Augustus Jacob.

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